Adaptation to oxidative stress: quinone-mediated protection of signaling in rat lung epithelial L2 cells

Biochemical Pharmacology
J ChoiHenry Jay Forman

Abstract

Cells can respond to a sublethal oxidative stress by up-regulating their intracellular glutathione (GSH) pool. Such increased GSH concentration is likely to be protective against further oxidative challenge, and, in fact, pre-exposure to low levels of oxidants confers increased cellular resistance to subsequent greater oxidative stress. Previously, we have shown that pretreatment of rat lung epithelial L2 cells with sublethal concentrations of tert-butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) increases intracellular GSH concentration in a concentration- and time-dependent manner. This increase resulted from up-regulation of both gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase (GGT) and gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase (GCS). Therefore, we investigated whether such increased GSH concentration protected these cells against a subtle loss in function caused by a subsequent challenge with sublethal concentrations of tert-butyl hydroperoxide (tBOOH) (< or = 200 microM), mimicking a physiological oxidative stress. Activation of L2 cell purinoreceptors with 100 microM ADP caused an elevation of intracellular Ca2+. This response was suppressed by a brief pre-exposure to tBOOH. The inhibition, however, was alleviated dramatically by a 16-hr pretreatment with 50 microM TBHQ. ...Continue Reading

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